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This style of interaction between Wikipedians drives away contributors, distracts others from more important matters, and weakens the entire community.
 
==When and why does it happen?==
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*During an edit war, when people have different opinions, or when there is a conflict over sharing power
*When the community grows larger; each editor does not know all the others and may not perceive the importance of each individual to the project—so they don’t worry about maintaining relationships that don’t exist. Reputation does not count as much as in a smaller community.
*Sometimes, a particularly impolite user joins the project.
 
Most of the time, insults are used in the heat of the moment during a longer conflict. They are essentially a way to end the discussion. Often the person who made the insult regrets having used such words afterwards. This in itself is a good reason to remove (or refactor) the offending words.
 
In other cases, the offender is doing it on purpose: either to distract the "opponent(s)" from the issue, or simply to drive them away from working on the article or even from the project, or to push them to commit an even greater breach in civility, which might result in ostracism or banning. In those cases, it is far less likely that the offender will have any regrets and apologize.
 
It should be noted that some editors deliberately push others to the point of breaching civility, without committing such a breach themselves.
 
==Why is it bad?==